TERRA 805: Natabar Sarangi – The Source

Produced by Jason Taylor

Synopsis

Natabar continues to find, save and share his indigenous rice seed with local farmers. To date he has managed to re-introduce over 350 varieties. But it’s not just about the indigenous rice seed of India or about the survival of a sustainable agriculture system with the knowledge of over ten thousand years. It’s about a global phenomenon taking place where a non-sustainable system systematically destroys a sustainable one, where short term profit has the power to overwhelm common sense and the consciousness of many millions, where progress is not progress but the wanton destruction of an eco-system and environment we will never be able to replace.

Natabar Sarangi is just one of a growing number of farmers throughout the world who realize that if we do not begin to repair the damage taking place to our agricultural systems and our environment, we will lose not just our cultural identity but our fundamental right to a truly sustainable system of food security.

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About the Producer

After ten years of working as a photographer and filmmaker in what is fashionably known as ‘development’, Jason Taylor has finally come to the realization that much of what he was involved in was little more than managed poverty. He started to realize that he was becoming a part of that system and as he looked around and interacted with media, development, photographers and filmmakers, began to understand that it is an industry like any other. He began to question the work he was doing and the absolute disconnect between those who commissioned him and those he was there to document. So Jason Taylor started the Source Project: www.thesourcefilm.org.